In classifying certain infinite groups under minimal conditions it is needed to find non-simplicity criteria for the groups under consideration. We obtain some of such criteria as a consequence of the main result of the paper and the classification of finite simple groups.

A fairly old problem in modular representation theory is to determine the vanishing behavior of the $\mathrm{H}om$ groups and higher $\mathrm{E}xt$ groups of Weyl modules and to compute the dimension of the $\mathbb{Z}/\left(p\right)$-vector space ${\mathrm{H}om}_{{\overline{A}}_r}({\overline{K}}_{\lambda },{\overline{K}}_{\mu })$ for any partitions $\lambda$, $\mu$ of $r$, which is the intertwining number. K. Akin, D. A. Buchsbaum, and D. Flores solved this problem in the cases of partitions of length two and three. In this paper, we describe the vanishing behavior of the groups ${\mathrm{H}om}_{{\overline{A}}_r}({\overline{K}}_{\lambda },{\overline{K}}_{\mu })$ and provide a new formula for the intertwining number for any...